⚓Maritime

a depression on a ramp to a typhoon, a fishing coast under red, and a coastal wind ramp booked for tomorrow

The most consequential marine number today is a forecast, not a measurement. TD 24W sits east of Saipan at 35 mph and is carried to 65 kt — typhoon strength — by Friday afternoon, recurving north-north-east then north-west past the far-northern CNMI: that is vessel routing and port-call sequencing across the Philippine Sea decided on an intensity ramp rather than a track threat, with no watches for Guam, Saipan, Tinian or Rota. On the Adriatic, a coastal wind ramp to 10.0 m/s follows on Sep 17 across the Šibenik and Zadar corridors after today's last warm pulse — a ferry and small-craft question on a coast that runs on them. Saudi Arabia's red run holds on the south-western coast through Friday, and Argentina's and New Zealand's fronts put sea state and visibility into southern passages. (The Adriatic figures are internal situational context.)

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